Andhra Azevedo

Let's urge BC to prioritize nature‑positive, climate‑ready benefits for people and ecosystems.

→ Here's a helpful guide on taking the Bill 15 survey: www.organizingforchange.org/ipa-survey
→ Environmental voices can tip the balance. Take the 15–20min survey now: feedback.engage.gov.bc.ca/361894

The BC Climate Solution's annual report is now posted on the govt website. 🧵
- BC has huge economic advantages in a decarbonizing world, but investors require consistency and predictability of climate policies.
- Kudos to BC for expanding renewable electricity. /1
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We won 🚲

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UN Secretary‑General António Guterres:

"Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies – they are sabotaging them. Driving up costs. Undermining competitiveness. Locking-in stranded assets. And missing the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century."

FNLC Expresses Profound Disappointment with the Passage of Bills 14 and 15 Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

“There is overwhelming opposition from First Nations all over the Province to Bills 14 and 15. With the Province’s forced closure of the Bills last night, reconciliation in B.C. is having a near death experience." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip www.ubcic.bc.ca/fnlc_express... #bcpoli

And with that, the NDP secure their reputation as a government prioritizing ego-driven “Abundance” over their own obligations to DRIPA, and can absolutely no longer be called climate leaders.

Here’s Another Reason to Oppose the Government’s Bill 15 | The Tyee The NDP’s new law would let companies hired by proponents approve infrastructure projects.

@soniafurstenau.bsky.social: It’s not just the NDP government — and private industry — we’re being asked to trust.

This bill would also empower cabinet to give authority to industry hired professionals and sidestep existing government processes and oversight.

#bcpoli

This quote from then-MLA Jenny Kwan could apply to Minister Ma's words in 2025 just as it did to Minister Falcon's in 2003:
“The legislation does not say what the minister claims.”

Great to stand together against Bill 15 this morning. This bill is a blank cheque for Cabinet to pick and choose which projects avoid rigorous EA and permitting reqts without any clear guardrails to uphold Indigenous rights and governance and ensure environmental protections.

The Premier’s Promises Aren’t Enough to Save Bill 15 | The Tyee The infrastructure bill ignores Indigenous rights and the law. It should be shelved.

When it comes to Bill 15, Premier Eby said no projects will go ahead without consent and that the legislation won’t be used for pipelines or LNG projects.

None of that is written in the bill. Adam Olsen writes.

Will Cutting Red Tape Make BC Great Again? | The Tyee The province is facing opposition to legislation that would streamline approval for infrastructure projects.

What is Bill 15, the speeding-up-major projects legislation introduced by the BC NDP - and what are the concerns? #bcpoli Fantastic explainer by @amandafollett.bsky.social and @zoeyunker.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil

Ecojustice raises concerns over Premier Eby’s overreaching new bill Bill 15: Infrastructure Projects Act is overly broad and dangerously vague, group says VANCOUVER/UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (MUSQUEAM), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (SQUAMISH) AND səlilwətaɬ (TSLEIL-WAUTUTH) TERRITORIES…

Ecojustice raises concerns over Premier Eby’s overreaching new bill ecojustice.ca/news/ecojust... #bcpoli @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social

FNLC Questions Regressive, Conflated Infrastructure Projects Act; Alarmed by Province’s Backsliding on Reconciliation Efforts Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

“In developing Bill 15 the Province conducted no meaningful consultation and cooperation with First Nations and did not adhere to its own Interim Approach on the Alignment of Laws (Interim Approach)." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip www.ubcic.bc.ca/fnlc_questio...

🚨 TAKE ACTION: Bill 5 would gut the Endangered Species Act, hand power to wealthy developers, and break promises to First Nations.

Submit your comment by May 17 to help stop it.

Environmental protections didn’t start this trade war. Erasing them won’t end it.

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Chart | Conservative election win could add 800m tonnes to Canada’s emissions by 2035: Black line: Historical Canadian greenhouse gas emissions 1990-2023, millions of tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Blue line: Projected emissions based on the Conservative party’s plans to eliminate certain climate policies, 2024-2035. Red line: Projected emissions based on existing federal climate policies under the Liberals, 2024-2035. Yellow shaded area: Canada’s emissions targets for 2026, 2030, 2035 and 2050. The historic emissions and party projections do not include LULUCF accounting contributions. Source: Starke and Rhodes (2025), Canadian greenhouse gas inventory, Canadian greenhouse gas emissions projections.

NEW – Analysis: Conservative election win could add 800m tonnes to Canada’s emissions by 2035 | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/ comment from Emma Starke and Katya Rhodes

Read here: buff.ly/0HQhsZk

If you want to read the report card as a PDF: https://movementyvr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Vancouver-By-Election_-How-do-the-Parties-Stack-up-on-Transit.pdf

If you live in Vancouver, please vote in the byelection today - Saturday - anytime until 8pm! Here's our report card.

If you want to read the report card as a PDF:
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2024 Canadian Pension Climate Report Card — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet The 2024 Canadian Pension Climate Report Card, an independent benchmark for evaluating the quality, depth and credibility of climate policies for 11 of Canada’s largest pension managers, reveals which...

Today Shift released its annual Canadian Pension Climate Report Card, an independent benchmark for evaluating the quality, depth and credibility of climate policies for 11 of Canada’s largest pension managers, collectively managing $2.4 trillion in retirement savings.

Ksi Lisims Proposed LNG Project Fails Gitanyow Climate Test | Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs The Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs released today a failing grade for the proposed Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project based on an updated and evidence-based climate test they are using to thoroughly...

News release today from the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs:

Ksi Lisims Proposed LNG Project Fails Gitanyow Climate Test
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Heads in the sands Understanding the social and economic risks of declining global demand for Alberta oil

New report from Ecojustice & @policyalternatives.bsky.social: Global #ClimateAction will cause a steep drop in Canadian oil sands production — and have serious economic consequences and social impacts (including 95% decrease in oil sands jobs.) Read report here: policyalternatives.ca/heads-in-the...

Can a new B.C. government imagine real economic reconciliation? | The Narwhal Indigenous nations in B.C. deserve true justice, not tired frameworks

On Monday, a new B.C. government was sworn in. @janellelapointe.bsky.social wonders if they are ready to think bigger when it comes to economic reconciliation & Indigenous Rights thenarwhal.ca/energy-econo...

NEWS icon in top left corner. Stand.earth and ecojustice logo in top right corner. Background photo of judge using a gavel. Text reads “Stand.earth is partnering with Ecojustice and concerned B.C. residents to take FortisBC to court FortisBC is the largest provider of "natural" gas in British Columbia. The case is aiming to stop the company's blatant greenwashing of its gas.”

Stand.earth is partnering with Ecojustice and taking FortisBC, the largest provider of “natural” gas in British Columbia, to court to stop the company’s blatant greenwashing.

Learn more at stand.earth/Fortis

ENGOs win fight to protect Marbeled Murrelet Federal Court finds Minister Steven Guilbeault’s interpretation of the Species at Risk Act unreasonable

Celebrating a nice win for the birds in Federal Court (and feeling overly satisfied to see a couple years' worth of thinking way too much about species at risk and migratory birds legislation reflected in a Federal Court decision): ecojustice.ca/news/federal...